Profile
Alfredo represents clients in a wide range of disputes both before civil courts and arbitral tribunals, in connection with litigations involving directors’ and officers’ liability, claims for environmental damages, for breach of contract, and a variety of inheritance disputes.
Alfredo has also developed specific skills in the drafting and negotiation of a series of commercial contracts for either the purchase, the sale or the lease of real estate assets, as well as franchising contracts, distribution and lease agreements, and contracts for the acquisition of business divisions.
Concentrations
- Directors and auditors responsibilities and liabilities
- Environmental disputes
- Succession disputes
- Real estate disputes
- Franchise & distribution contracts
- Purchase and sale contracts of real estate property
- Business branch rental contracts
- Commercial lease agreements
Capabilities
Experience
Acted for:
- a client in a hereditary dispute for alleged forgery of the will.
- a client in a hereditary dispute involving real estate properties of historical and artistical importance and exceptional value.
- a client, leader in the Large-Scale Retail (GDO), in a dispute with the property of the adjacent fund concerning the violation of rights in rem.
- a leading pharmaceutical company in a complex environmental proceeding for the refund of the costs of the reclaim held on the lands purchased from the counterpart.°
Acted for:
- a leading Italian company operating in the large-scale retailing business (GDO) through a network of hypermarkets, in the acquisition of a framework agreement and the related ancillary and executive agreements for the sale, in favor of another leading retailing business operator, of 3 business units (consisting of land, hypermarkets and fuel distribution plants) located in different regions of Italy.
- a leading company operating in the large-scale retailing business (GDO) through a network of supermarkets, in the negotiation of commercial agreements (i.e. joint venture agreements, franchising and master franchising agreements, business branch rental contracts, commercial lease agreements).
- a company, that owns an industrial area located in the North of Italy, in the acquisition of several preliminary purchase and sale agreements concerning various plots of land subject to a large urban redevelopment project.
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Pentimalli prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, EMEA Legal 500, Dispute Resolution, 2022, 2024-2025
- Team Member, U.S. News – Best Lawyers, "Law Firm of the Year: Litigation - Real Estate," 2022
Credentials
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J.D., University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, 1997
- Italy (admitted to Supreme Court)
- Italian, Native
- English, Fluent